Xavier played host today and was joined by Chrishaun Keller and special guest Stephen Campbell. Topics covered include:

– John Grisham is offering a permafree book that he says will save lives
– Amazon’s ‘supposed’ secret project
– Amazon is again banning heaps of reviewers and deleting all of their reviews – innocent reviewers also caught up in the sweeping bans

Patrick Stemp from the To Be Read podcast and Chrishaun Keller joined Erica for this week’s Roundtable Round Up. They discussed the below news items:

– Amazon announces KENPC 2.0
– New York Times Best-Seller List ignores authors 20k+ book sales
– Young Adult finally recognised
– Google’s new “Digital Book” may be digital, but is it a book?
– Steam has an interactive story called Emily is Away

Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our third weekly podcast where we go back to our roots and have brought back the Roundtable aspect. Each Sunday (American time) we’ll invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry.

Topics include:
– Kobo partners with ListenUp to give authors a discount on audiobook production
– According to German Court: sharing your Amazon purchases online is spamming
– A call to bust Amazon ‘monopoly’
– Plagiarism: K-Reports is using Book Report’s source code

Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our second weekly podcast where we go back to our roots and brought back the Roundtable aspect. Each Sunday (American time) we’ll invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry.

Topics include:
– Kindle ebooks with bad formatting and/or spelling mistakes to include warning label for readers
– Amazon to close Shelfari and merge it with Goodreads
– SFWA to back self-publishing Kickstarter campaigns
– A sexy ebook enhancement…

Changes are happening daily around the globe and in Indie Publishing, so you shouldn’t be surprised to see change happening here with the Self-Publishing Roundtable. The first change of note is that we are adding a second weekly podcast into the line up. We’ve decided to go back to our roots and have brought back the Roundtable aspect. Each Sunday (American time) we’ll invite a guest or two to join us and discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry and this will officially published on Monday (American time).

The round up is a wee bit late this week. But better late than never, right? And it’s packed tight with even more news and helpful tidbits than usual!
This round up includes: Amazon tech that’ll help attract more readers and listeners, helpful resources to keep you running on time, Diana Gabaldon’s suggestions on writing sex scenes, catfishing book bloggers, the Authors Guild finally picking the right fight (I know, right?) and the late, great David Bowie (RIP).

Not much to report at this time of the year but we’ve found a few things to tickle your fancy 🙂
As always we have: helpful resources (Joss Whedon is the best resource), something about B&N, Australian Kobo readers, why you should write a guest post for the SPRT blog and other stuff!

Amazon’s review policy has been causing some headaches of late. Not allowing reviews to be posted that have been made in exchange for money or other ‘gifts’ or reviews that have been made by people who have a connection to the author (you’re Facebook friends for example).

In the news…
Amazon has opened a physical bookstore!
Using Lego to bring ideas to life
Writing POV
Bookbub has some marketing advice you need to know.
+ some helpful resources for writing and publishing

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